Night Sky and Local North Carolinian Southeast Asian Stories

CPA’s Amanda Graham, Associate Director of Engagement, and the Carolina Asia Center’s Becky Butler, Assistant Director of Southeast Asia Initiatives at the Carolina Asia Center, gathered with Beth Gardiner of Carolina Public Humanities, and a group at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill for a public conversation about Vuong’s work, the operatic adaptation-in-progress, and its resonances with the histories and experiences of communities from Southeast Asia living across North Carolina.

The conversation was wide ranging, taking as its starting point the work of Ocean Vuong and ending with a focus on the 50th anniversary of the end of the American War in Vietnam and what has happened in the years since within the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian communities here in North Carolina.

Listen to an excerpt of the conversation here: